Frontiers of Information Technology & Electronic Engineering
>> 2019,
Volume 20,
Issue 11
doi:
10.1631/FITEE.1900094
Frontiers of Information Technology & Electronic Engineering
A multi-agent architecture for scheduling in platform-based smart manufacturing systems
Affiliation(s): Center for Intelligent Manufacturing Systems and Robots, School of Mechano-Electronic Engineering, Xidian University, Xi’an 710071, China; College of Computer Science and Technology, Jilin University, Changchun 130012, China; School of Automation Science and Electrical Engineering, Beihang University, Beijing 100191, China; Department of Production Engineering, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm 11428, Sweden; less
Accepted: 2019-12-10
Available online: 2019-12-10
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Abstract
During the past years, a number of concepts have been proposed, such as cloud manufacturing, Industry 4.0, and Industrial Internet. One of their common aims is to optimize the collaborative resource configuration across enterprises by establishing s that aggregate distributed resources. In all of these concepts, a complete manufacturing system consists of distributed physical manufacturing systems and a containing the virtual manufacturing systems mapped from the physical ones. We call such manufacturing systems -based systems (PSMSs). A PSMS can therefore be regarded as a huge cyber-physical system with the cyber part being the and the physical part being the corresponding physical manufacturing system. A significant issue for a PSMS is how to optimally schedule the aggregated resources. technology provides an effective approach for solving this issue. In this paper we propose a architecture for in PSMSs, which consists of a -level system (MAS) and an enterprise- level MAS. Procedures, characteristics, and requirements of in PSMSs are presented. A model for in a PSMS based on the architecture is proposed. A case study is conducted to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed architecture and model.